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TO RECEIVE DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST FROM MEMBERS. Mr. Jerman declared a personal interest in Monastery Lane as he lives there and Mr. Atkins declared a personal interest in the Museum as his wife was on the Committee. 97. POLICE MATTERS. Mr. Mason reported that at a meeting of the Storrington and Sullington Crime Reduction Committee it was reported that criminal activity in Storrington, in particular anti-social behaviour and criminal damage, in the past year had dropped from 21% of crime within the District to 7%. The Police regard this as a success story and were conveying how it was done to forces in Hampshire and Surrey. It was noted that there were now several agencies involved in tackling crime in the village and there was a lot being done to try and occupy youngsters. It was noted that the Parish Council has long campaigned for a more co-ordinated approach to counter crime, in particular anti-social behaviour in our community, and was delighted to see this was now happening and noted the pleasing subsequent results of these actions. 98. TO APPROVE AND SIGN THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF THE PARISH COUNCIL HELD ON THE 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2009. Minute No. 84 ‘withproposals’ should be two words. With this amendment, the Minutes were AGREED to be correct records of the proceedings and were duly signed by the Chairman. MATTERS ARISING :- 99. Minute No. 83: De-restriction Signs, Water Lane. It was pointed out that if there was no de-restriction to the 30 m.p.h., speed limit, it would not be possible to enforce this. 100. Minute No. 82(c): Vintage Rose Café. The license for tables/chairs outside on the pavement had been granted for a year and this would be reviewed at the end of this period. The recent accident there would be taken into consideration at review time. 101. Minute No. 82(c): Willow Tree. This application had been refused, but Mrs. Worthington-Leese said that the gate in question was open yesterday and that trees had been cut down. 102. Minute No. 86: The Future of Old Mill Drive. H.D.C., was not prepared to say categorically, but could see no reason why the Place Villerest idea of giving the Parish Council the ability to grant permissions for occasional use of the area could not be extended. However, no promises could be made at this stage. Mr. Carter stated that he had reservations about closing Old Mill Drive as this would mean the only effective way from the High Street would be up School Hill and he considered this too narrow and noted the buildings were listed. It was mentioned however that prior to 1968 Old Mill Drive did not exist and that in order to provide temporary parking during any rebuilding of the car park to go with a Waitrose store Old Mill Drive would be closed. This would give an opportunity to see the effect on the traffic of closure of the road. 103. Minute No. 82(c): Rowan Close. Following the Council’s letter requesting payment, a reply had been received, but did not enclose any payment. Therefore, Small Claims proceedings had been started. 104. Minute No. 84: Rent Increase, Cricket and Football Clubs. The Cricket Club had now paid for the first six months of this year, but nothing had been heard from the Football Club. Therefore, it was agreed that a recorded delivery letter should be sent to them quoting the terms of their lease and giving them a time limit to pay. 105. Minute No. 21: Planter Troughs. W.S.C.C., believed that the positioning of street furniture was in many ways best determined locally. However, they did apparently need to advertise the proposal for more planters. They also mentioned the problems recently raised with them of congestion in the village centre and unnecessary street clutter as they felt that the security vehicles would of necessity move onto the road if prevented by planters from parking on the pavement so adding to congestion. Members were surprised to hear there would be a need to advertise the proposed location as this did not appear to have been done previously and perplexed by the comments re security vehicles as it was W.S.C.C., that approached the Parish Council in the first place about having additional planters in order to prevent damage occurring to the new paving. 106. Minute No. 83: Public Conveniences. Mr. Mason reported that he had asked H.D.C., whether the situation in Storrington of having public toilets would be tolerated in Horsham town and pointed out that he did not see that this could continue for another two years until Waitrose would be able to offer them in Storrington. H.D.C., were now looking at feasibility and costings of temporary toilets being placed in the Library car park for that interim period. However, the Parish Council would have to find half the money as the District Council would only fund half. 107. Minute 77: Listing of The Old School. The five years since the last application had now lapsed. H.D.C., agrees that the Parish should re-submit their application. The owners of the building should be notified of the action to be taken and asked for their comments. 108. Minute No. 61(a) Horsham Food and Drink Festival. H.D.C., should be asked to consider holding this event at different locations around the District. Councillors should advise the Parish Office of details of any companies that source local produce in order that this information may be passed to H.D.C. 109. Minute No. 89(b): Office Refurbishment Update. It was pointed out that the figure of estimated overspend of £15,000 was incorrect. TO RECEIVE AND IF APPROVED TO ADOPT THE MINUTES OF THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEE MEETINGS:- 110. Infrastructure, Communications and Environment Committee held on the 7th October, 2009. Minute No. 32: Storrington Pond: The Pond budget had been exceeded and there was still further work required. No further contributions had been received from W.S.C.C. A further letter should be written to W.S.C.C. These minutes were duly ADOPTED. 111. Recreation and Property Committee held on the 7th October, 2009. Minute No. 66: Unpaid hire fees: This was in respect of a band that hired the Football Pavilion. This hirer should be pursued and it perhaps be suggested that he pays the debt off at an amount per week. He had said that he was going to the CAB to seek advice and contact is to be made with him again to see what suggestions had been made to pay off the debt. It was agreed that one-off hirers should pay in full prior to the event. A reassessment of the accounts should be made as regards risk of non-payment. Minute No. 63: Cricket and Leisure Centre Roof. Two Councillors had had a look at this and reported that it would take one youth standing on the shoulders of the other to get up on the roof and it was clearly a dangerous exercise for anyone to attempt to climb up there. They did not feel that there was anything the Council could reasonably do to stop someone deliberately having disregard for his own safety. Any such trespass should be reported to the Police. These minutes were duly ADOPTED. 112. Planning and Development Committee held on the 8th October, 2009. The Laybrook application had been withdrawn. 113. COUNTY AND DISTRICT COUNCIL MATTERS. Mr. Wilkinson (County Councillor) reported that he had only received this evening the summary report of a Transport Meeting that had been held earlier in the week, but he would share the information with the Council when he has had time to go through it. Temporary signage will be erected to point out the height restriction at Houghton Railway Bridge by the end of the week - one at Tesco’s roundabout, another at Whiteways roundabout together with larger signs just prior to the bridge. The scheme for more permanent signs on the A.24 and A.27 was being looked into. The Highway Area Manager would be writing to the companies whose lorries use Storrington as a rat run asking them to take other routes. Mr. Wilkinson was to attend a Neighbourhood Panel Meeting at the Fire Station tomorrow and he would let the Council know what happens. W.S.C.C., won a national award for their waste electrical and electronic recycling scheme. The County were now training Waste Prevention Officers who are volunteers; they attend a two-week course at Brighton University or do a course and get a certificate. These officers then go out to public bodies, Parish Councils, W.Is, fetes, etc., to advise re recycling. There were now almost one hundred of them. With the agreement of the meeting the Chairman brought forward agenda item 16A. 114. REQUESTS FOR DONATIONS :- (a) W.S.C.C. Youth Centre, Steyning – Request for £200 towards cost of running minibus for Saturday sessions. Mr. Wilkinson advised that the County’s budget was tight and they had three or four youths from Storrington that wanted to attend. However, Ms A. Ball, the organiser, has said that they will run a pilot scheme using the County Youth budget for a month or so. It was AGREED :- *A letter should be written suggesting that County charge £1. per day for the pilot scheme.* Mr. Wilkinson then left the meeting. 115. COUNTY AND DISTRICT COUNCIL MATTERS. Mr. Dawe (District Councillor) reported that the Riverside Walk would be opened on the 30th October. Chris Dyer was retiring, therefore a new Director of Leisure had been appointed together with an assistant to replace Jim Gee. One of these people would start work in December and the other in January. Mr. Mason (District Councillor) reported that he represented both the District and Parish Councils on the Partnership Committee looking at environmental issues. They were driving forward the Greening Campaign: no carrier bags; use of energy saving bulbs; reduce energy usage in the home, etc. People will put a card in their window to let other people know when they meet the criteria. Originally the Parish Council had been asked to fund £2,000 for this scheme, but this was now being funded by W.S.C.C., and H.D.C., each contributing £1,000. 116. TO APPOINT A PARISH COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE ON THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PARTNERSHIP TEAM. The P.C.S.O., had asked Mr. Gibbons if he would be willing to attend this meeting, however, Mr. Roper had already been appointed to a similarly named body. It was AGREED :- *If these were two separate teams, to appoint Mr. Gibbons, but if not to leave Mr. Roper as the Council’s representative.* 117. TO AUTHORIZE COST FOR HONORARY CITIZENSHIP AWARD. The expenditure incurred was duly RATIFIED :- *To give £50.00.* (Local Government Act 1972 s.137). 118. COMPLETION OF EXTERNAL AUDIT. The External Auditor’s Report was presented and it was noted that on the basis of their review, it was their opinion that the information contained in the Annual Return was in accordance with the Audit Commission’s requirements and no matters had come to their attention giving cause for concern that relevant legislation and regulatory requirements had not been met. There were two comments in the ‘other matters not affecting their opinion that they drew to the Council’s attention’ and these were duly noted. 119. PARISH HALL UPDATE AND COMPLETION DATE. These works would be complete by Friday, 6th November. The sum of £39,000 of the £46,000 budget had been expended to date. 120. VILLAGE DRAFT DESIGN STATEMENT – UPDATE. The exhibition for this was currently up in the Library for public consultation and the comments from this would be collated next week. A final version would then be produced. On the page of ‘mistakes in the past’ it was felt that before and after photographs should be included of Bine Mill. Mrs. Caroline Read should be congratulated for production of such a professional document. 121. ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR COUNCILLORS TO READ :- (a) Horsham District Community Partnership – All Our Futures Sustainable Community Strategy. Available in the Parish Office. (b) Partnership News. Available in the Parish Office. 122. CLERK’S CORRESPONDENCE :- (a) W.S.C.C., Monastery Lane (Temporary Closure) Order 2009 from 9th November, 2009 for gas works for six weeks. This was duly noted. (b) Action in rural Sussex Annual General Meeting and Joint Annual Conference, 6th November, 2009. This was duly noted. (c) Star Energy had written advising that they had a new grant fund available. Applications were required by December. Mrs. Wheatley took this to work up an application. 123. CHAIRMAN’S ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ANY URGENT MATTERS. There were no matters raised. 124. REQUESTS FOR DONATIONS :- (b) Steyning Parish Council – had requested a contribution towards the running costs they were making for the Steyning Swimming Pool – they suggested a sum of between 10-20p per resident per annum. This Council felt leisure facilities used by the wider community should not be the responsibility of a single Parish simply because the facility was based there. A fairer District-wide arrangement for leisure was required. The swimming pool strategy was a District Council initiative and the Parish Council felt therefore H.D.C., should be prepared to 100% fund its own leisure policies. It was noted that the subsidy H.D.C. pay toward this pool was approximately £200,000 per annum, therefore through their Council Tax residents of Storrington and Sullington were already in fact contributing. (c) Storrington Village Day, 2009 – had requested the sum of £45.00 towards cost of rubbish bins. This was AGREED. (Litter Act 1983, ss. 5,6.) (d) Royal British Legion – £100.00 for wreaths for Remembrance Sunday. This was AGREED. (Local Government Act 1972, s.137) 125. BANK RECONCILIATION FOR SEPTEMBER. This was duly NOTED. 126. ACCOUNTS TO BE PAID in the sum of £18,679.16 plus V.A.T., were duly AGREED and signed by the Chairman and Clerk. Garden Care should be asked to provide itemized bills. 127. COMPARISON OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE WITH BUDGET FOR THE PERIOD 1ST APRIL, 2009 TO 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2009. The report presented was not felt to be very meaningful as it did not show the estimated expenditure to the end of the year. Therefore it was AGREED to leave this until next month when a report containing that information should be produced. 128. ADJOURNMENT – Members of the Public may bring up any matters not included on this agenda. There were no members of the public present. 129. DATE OF NEXT MEETING - Wednesday, 25th November, 2009. There being no further business the meeting closed at 9.55 p.m.
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STORRINGTON & SULLINGTON PARISH COUNCIL

MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL MEETING

HELD IN THE CHANCTONBURY ROOM,

SULLINGTON PARISH HALL,

THAKEHAM ROAD, STORRINGTON,

on WEDNESDAY, 28th OCTOBER 2009,

COMMENCING AT 7.00 p.m.

Present: Mr. R. Dawe in the Chair, Mr. D. Atkins, Mr. R. Carter, Mr. A. Head, Mr. R. Jerman, Mr. J. Macey, Mr. C. Mason, Mr. A. Mullard, Mr. J. Sanson, Mrs. L. Wheatley and Mrs. A. Worthington-Leese.

95. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE were received from Mr. E. Gibbons (prior engagement), Mrs. G. King (holiday), Mr. D. Roper (prior engagement) and Mr. J. Williams (attending another meeting). The reasons for absence were duly ACCEPTED.

96. TO RECEIVE DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST FROM MEMBERS. Mr. Jerman declared a personal interest in Monastery Lane as he lives there and Mr. Atkins declared a personal interest in the Museum as his wife was on the Committee.

97. POLICE MATTERS. Mr. Mason reported that at a meeting of the Storrington and Sullington Crime Reduction Committee it was reported that criminal activity in Storrington, in particular anti-social behaviour and criminal damage, in the past year had dropped from 21% of crime within the District to 7%. The Police regard this as a success story and were conveying how it was done to forces in Hampshire and Surrey. It was noted that there were now several agencies involved in tackling crime in the village and there was a lot being done to try and occupy youngsters. It was noted that the Parish Council has long campaigned for a more co-ordinated approach to counter crime, in particular anti-social behaviour in our community, and was delighted to see this was now happening and noted the pleasing subsequent results of these actions.

98. TO APPROVE AND SIGN THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF THE PARISH COUNCIL HELD ON THE 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2009. Minute No. 84 ‘withproposals’ should be two words. With this amendment, the Minutes were AGREED to be correct records of the proceedings and were duly signed by the Chairman.

MATTERS ARISING :-

99. Minute No. 83: De-restriction Signs, Water Lane. It was pointed out that if there was no de-restriction to the 30 m.p.h., speed limit, it would not be possible to enforce this.

100. Minute No. 82(c): Vintage Rose Café. The license for tables/chairs outside on the pavement had been granted for a year and this would be reviewed at the end of this period. The recent accident there would be taken into consideration at review time.

101. Minute No. 82(c): Willow Tree. This application had been refused, but Mrs. Worthington-Leese said that the gate in question was open yesterday and that trees had been cut down.

102. Minute No. 86: The Future of Old Mill Drive. H.D.C., was not prepared to say categorically, but could see no reason why the Place Villerest idea of giving the Parish Council the ability to grant permissions for occasional use of the area could not be extended. However, no promises could be made at this stage. Mr. Carter stated that he had reservations about closing Old Mill Drive as this would mean the only effective way from the High Street would be up School Hill and he considered this too narrow and noted the buildings were listed. It was mentioned however that prior to 1968 Old Mill Drive did not exist and that in order to provide temporary parking during any rebuilding of the car park to go with a Waitrose store Old Mill Drive would be closed. This would give an opportunity to see the effect on the traffic of closure of the road.

103. Minute No. 82(c): Rowan Close. Following the Council’s letter requesting payment, a reply had been received, but did not enclose any payment. Therefore, Small Claims proceedings had been started.

104. Minute No. 84: Rent Increase, Cricket and Football Clubs. The Cricket Club had now paid for the first six months of this year, but nothing had been heard from the Football Club. Therefore, it was agreed that a recorded delivery letter should be sent to them quoting the terms of their lease and giving them a time limit to pay.

105. Minute No. 21: Planter Troughs. W.S.C.C., believed that the positioning of street furniture was in many ways best determined locally. However, they did apparently need to advertise the proposal for more planters. They also mentioned the problems recently raised with them of congestion in the village centre and unnecessary street clutter as they felt that the security vehicles would of necessity move onto the road if prevented by planters from parking on the pavement so adding to congestion. Members were surprised to hear there would be a need to advertise the proposed location as this did not appear to have been done previously and perplexed by the comments re security vehicles as it was W.S.C.C., that approached the Parish Council in the first place about having additional planters in order to prevent damage occurring to the new paving.

106. Minute No. 83: Public Conveniences. Mr. Mason reported that he had asked H.D.C., whether the situation in Storrington of having public toilets would be tolerated in Horsham town and pointed out that he did not see that this could continue for another two years until Waitrose would be able to offer them in Storrington. H.D.C., were now looking at feasibility and costings of temporary toilets being placed in the Library car park for that interim period. However, the Parish Council would have to find half the money as the District Council would only fund half.

107. Minute 77: Listing of The Old School. The five years since the last application had now lapsed. H.D.C., agrees that the Parish should re-submit their application. The owners of the building should be notified of the action to be taken and asked for their comments.

108. Minute No. 61(a) Horsham Food and Drink Festival. H.D.C., should be asked to consider holding this event at different locations around the District. Councillors should advise the Parish Office of details of any companies that source local produce in order that this information may be passed to H.D.C.

109. Minute No. 89(b): Office Refurbishment Update. It was pointed out that the figure of estimated overspend of £15,000 was incorrect.

TO RECEIVE AND IF APPROVED TO ADOPT THE MINUTES OF THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEE MEETINGS:-

110. Infrastructure, Communications and Environment Committee held on the 7th October, 2009. Minute No. 32: Storrington Pond: The Pond budget had been exceeded and there was still further work required. No further contributions had been received from W.S.C.C. A further letter should be written to W.S.C.C. These minutes were duly ADOPTED.

111. Recreation and Property Committee held on the 7th October, 2009. Minute No. 66: Unpaid hire fees: This was in respect of a band that hired the Football Pavilion. This hirer should be pursued and it perhaps be suggested that he pays the debt off at an amount per week. He had said that he was going to the CAB to seek advice and contact is to be made with him again to see what suggestions had been made to pay off the debt. It was agreed that one-off hirers should pay in full prior to the event. A reassessment of the accounts should be made as regards risk of non-payment.

Minute No. 63: Cricket and Leisure Centre Roof. Two Councillors had had a look at this and reported that it would take one youth standing on the shoulders of the other to get up on the roof and it was clearly a dangerous exercise for anyone to attempt to climb up there. They did not feel that there was anything the Council could reasonably do to stop someone deliberately having disregard for his own safety. Any such trespass should be reported to the Police.

These minutes were duly ADOPTED.

112. Planning and Development Committee held on the 8th October, 2009. The Laybrook application had been withdrawn.

113. COUNTY AND DISTRICT COUNCIL MATTERS. Mr. Wilkinson (County Councillor) reported that he had only received this evening the summary report of a Transport Meeting that had been held earlier in the week, but he would share the information with the Council when he has had time to go through it. Temporary signage will be erected to point out the height restriction at Houghton Railway Bridge by the end of the week - one at Tesco’s roundabout, another at Whiteways roundabout together with larger signs just prior to the bridge. The scheme for more permanent signs on the A.24 and A.27 was being looked into. The Highway Area Manager would be writing to the companies whose lorries use Storrington as a rat run asking them to take other routes.

Mr. Wilkinson was to attend a Neighbourhood Panel Meeting at the Fire Station tomorrow and he would let the Council know what happens.

W.S.C.C., won a national award for their waste electrical and electronic recycling scheme. The County were now training Waste Prevention Officers who are volunteers; they attend a two-week course at Brighton University or do a course and get a certificate. These officers then go out to public bodies, Parish Councils, W.Is, fetes, etc., to advise re recycling. There were now almost one hundred of them.

With the agreement of the meeting the Chairman brought forward agenda item 16A.

114. REQUESTS FOR DONATIONS :-

(a) W.S.C.C. Youth Centre, Steyning – Request for £200 towards cost of running minibus for Saturday sessions. Mr. Wilkinson advised that the County’s budget was tight and they had three or four youths from Storrington that wanted to attend. However, Ms A. Ball, the organiser, has said that they will run a pilot scheme using the County Youth budget for a month or so. It was AGREED :-

A letter should be written suggesting that County charge £1. per day for the pilot scheme.

Mr. Wilkinson then left the meeting.

115. COUNTY AND DISTRICT COUNCIL MATTERS. Mr. Dawe (District Councillor) reported that the Riverside Walk would be opened on the 30th October. Chris Dyer was retiring, therefore a new Director of Leisure had been appointed together with an assistant to replace Jim Gee. One of these people would start work in December and the other in January.

Mr. Mason (District Councillor) reported that he represented both the District and Parish Councils on the Partnership Committee looking at environmental issues. They were driving forward the Greening Campaign: no carrier bags; use of energy saving bulbs; reduce energy usage in the home, etc. People will put a card in their window to let other people know when they meet the criteria. Originally the Parish Council had been asked to fund £2,000 for this scheme, but this was now being funded by W.S.C.C., and H.D.C., each contributing £1,000.

116. TO APPOINT A PARISH COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE ON THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PARTNERSHIP TEAM. The P.C.S.O., had asked Mr. Gibbons if he would be willing to attend this meeting, however, Mr. Roper had already been appointed to a similarly named body. It was AGREED :-

If these were two separate teams, to appoint Mr. Gibbons, but if not to leave Mr. Roper as the Council’s representative.

117. TO AUTHORIZE COST FOR HONORARY CITIZENSHIP AWARD. The expenditure incurred was duly RATIFIED :-

To give £50.00. (Local Government Act 1972 s.137).

118. COMPLETION OF EXTERNAL AUDIT. The External Auditor’s Report was presented and it was noted that on the basis of their review, it was their opinion that the information contained in the Annual Return was in accordance with the Audit Commission’s requirements and no matters had come to their attention giving cause for concern that relevant legislation and regulatory requirements had not been met. There were two comments in the ‘other matters not affecting their opinion that they drew to the Council’s attention’ and these were duly noted.

119. PARISH HALL UPDATE AND COMPLETION DATE. These works would be complete by Friday, 6th November. The sum of £39,000 of the £46,000 budget had been expended to date.

120. VILLAGE DRAFT DESIGN STATEMENT – UPDATE. The exhibition for this was currently up in the Library for public consultation and the comments from this would be collated next week. A final version would then be produced. On the page of ‘mistakes in the past’ it was felt that before and after photographs should be included of Bine Mill.

Mrs. Caroline Read should be congratulated for production of such a professional document.

121. ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR COUNCILLORS TO READ :-

(a) Horsham District Community Partnership – All Our Futures Sustainable Community Strategy. Available in the Parish Office.

(b) Partnership News. Available in the Parish Office.

122. CLERK’S CORRESPONDENCE :-

(a) W.S.C.C., Monastery Lane (Temporary Closure) Order 2009 from 9th November, 2009 for gas works for six weeks. This was duly noted.

(b) Action in rural Sussex Annual General Meeting and Joint Annual Conference, 6th November, 2009. This was duly noted.

(c) Star Energy had written advising that they had a new grant fund available. Applications were required by December. Mrs. Wheatley took this to work up an application.

123. CHAIRMAN’S ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ANY URGENT MATTERS. There were no matters raised.

124. REQUESTS FOR DONATIONS :-

(b) Steyning Parish Council – had requested a contribution towards the running costs they were making for the Steyning Swimming Pool – they suggested a sum of between 10-20p per resident per annum. This Council felt leisure facilities used by the wider community should not be the responsibility of a single Parish simply because the facility was based there. A fairer District-wide arrangement for leisure was required. The swimming pool strategy was a District Council initiative and the Parish Council felt therefore H.D.C., should be prepared to 100% fund its own leisure policies. It was noted that the subsidy H.D.C. pay toward this pool was approximately £200,000 per annum, therefore through their Council Tax residents of Storrington and Sullington were already in fact contributing.

(c) Storrington Village Day, 2009 – had requested the sum of £45.00 towards cost of rubbish bins. This was AGREED. (Litter Act 1983, ss. 5,6.)

(d) Royal British Legion – £100.00 for wreaths for Remembrance Sunday. This was AGREED. (Local Government Act 1972, s.137)

125. BANK RECONCILIATION FOR SEPTEMBER. This was duly NOTED.

126. ACCOUNTS TO BE PAID in the sum of £18,679.16 plus V.A.T., were duly AGREED and signed by the Chairman and Clerk. Garden Care should be asked to provide itemized bills.

127. COMPARISON OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE WITH BUDGET FOR THE PERIOD 1ST APRIL, 2009 TO 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2009. The report presented was not felt to be very meaningful as it did not show the estimated expenditure to the end of the year. Therefore it was AGREED to leave this until next month when a report containing that information should be produced.

128. ADJOURNMENT – Members of the Public may bring up any matters not included on this agenda. There were no members of the public present.

129. DATE OF NEXT MEETING - Wednesday, 25th November, 2009.

There being no further business the meeting closed at 9.55 p.m.